Dell EMC Metro node 7.0.1 Administrator Guide

Adjust Thresholds (if needed)

Steps

On the management server, both if a Metro, create a directory port-stats-monitor and copy the specific hardware, VS2 or VS6, config.json file, you saw earlier after uncompressing the port-stats-monitor_6.2.zip file, to the newly created directory.

Create the directory /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor.
Example: mkdir /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor
Copy the appropriate hardware <vsX>_config.json file to this directory for the metro node hardware you are working on. Examples: cp vs2-config.json /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor/config.json or cp vs6-config.json /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor/config.json.
NOTE: For Step c, do not make any changes after loading the script. Let the monitor script run for a bit and if there are performance issues, then the end user will get email alerts of any issues and they will reach out to metro node support for further assistance. Go to Step d, though only to confirm that the monitor is running. In Step d scroll down to where it reads "Checking status" and only run that command for now. Steps c and d are to be followed for both clusters if a Metro.
Changing default thresholds in the config.json file (optional). If you find that the default values, or one of them, could be increased for better results, you can modify the config.json file for new threshold values (using VI editor). Example: vim /var/log/VPlex/cli/port-stats-monitor/config.json.
```
Sample Output:
{
       "bad_CRC": 5,
       "Disc_frame": 40,
       "link_fail": 15,
       "Loss_of_sync": 45,
       "loss_of_sig": 45,
       "reset": 5
}
```

After doing modifications to the config.json file, you must restart the port-monitor script.

VPlexcli:/>  port-monitor restart
VPlexcli:/>  port-monitor status
Status: running with the following parameters:
        Emails: joe@dell.com <<< this will only show e-mail addresses if configured
        SMTP: x.x.x.x
        Local-only: False
        Threshold config: {u'lr-remote': 5, u'crc-errors': 50, u'invalid-transmission-word': 500, u'link-failure': 10, u'loss-of-signal': 45, u'loss-of-sync': 60}

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Dell EMC Metro node 7.0.1 Administrator Guide

Adjust Thresholds (if needed)

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